Current Issue: September/October 2017

Next publication deadline: September 1 for November/December ‘17 issue.

Bringing herbalists and herb enthusiasts together since 1992! The Essential
Herbal is a print magazine shipping within the US. We also have a pdf version
available worldwide.

The Essential Herbal is a herb magazine that you can prop up on the kitchen
counter while trying recipes, take along to the natural food store, herb shop,
or garden center to help you shop for the best stuff. We originally called it an
“herbal newsletter,” but since early 2004 when we began running 32 pages, it
became an “herbal magazine.” There are 6 issues per year.

Backyard Herbalists and Wildcrafters—THIS IS FOR YOU!!! Are you enchanted
by all the plants in your path? Do you want to learn which you can eat, which
you can use on a rash, and how to make a tea to soothe a cold with another?

Adventurous Cooks—YOU’LL LOVE TEH! Every issue has lots of interesting new
ways to prepare dishes using healthful herbs to add zing!

Foragers, Crafters, Family Herbalists—The Essential Herbal is written JUST
FOR YOU! You’ll find our pages to be filled with fascinating information.

You’ll notice that there is a real personality to this magazine. No matter who
or what is in a particular issue, it always feels like a big fat, juicy letter
from an old friend—filled with information, recipes, lore, and crafting ideas
and instructions for using herbs and making them a part of your life everyday.
We know that there is a need for clear instructions for the new herbie—and
that the herb recipes and herb craft ideas need to be interesting to the old
hands, too. We aren’t slick or glossy, but we are fun and folksy. There is
something for everyone in every single issue: a new way to use herbs, a new way
to taste herbs, or a new way to use them in family first aid.

We are now in our second decade of continuous publication and have just added a
pdf version for foreign subscribers or those wishing to go paperless. Just like
the different times of the year and the way life changes, so does The Essential
Herbal magazine… and it all depends on what is submitted for that particular
issue. Always a fun read, and every issue is filled with the contributions of
herbalists from all over the country—recipes, craft instructions, medicinal
recipes and more.

The stated purpose of The Essential Herbal is to provide a forum for all of us
out there working alone with herbs to be in touch and share what we know. Some
tiny little herb shop in the hidden hills might harbor some powerful
knowledge… and how are we to know? Its an opportunity to put that herb
shop on the map. It is a chance for the home herbalist to be published right
alongside someone everyone has heard of. Cool, huh? So join in the fun.
Subscribe now
to The Essential Herbal magazine!